CVE-2021-36132

CVSS V2 Medium 6 CVSS V3 High 8.8
Description
An issue was discovered in the FileImporter extension in MediaWiki through 1.36. For certain relaxed configurations of the $wgFileImporterRequiredRight variable, it might not validate all appropriate user rights, thus allowing a user with insufficient rights to perform operations (specifically file uploads) that they should not be allowed to perform.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-36132
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-07-02T13:15:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-07T15:34:34
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-863 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/863.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.36
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 6.8
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280590 Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8ff2a67abd2c118a3469e4410eac2a451bfa76c3 Patch Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36132
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36132
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:08:36 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 05:22:13 2021-07-02T13:15Z 2021-07-02T13:15:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 05:22:13 2021-07-07T15:34:34 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 05:22:13 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated